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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Entertaining and thoughtful! A Great Read!: 
I don't know what book the reader from Wilmington, De., was reading, but it doesn't sound like the same book that I read! Seeds of Fire is a fast moving, engrossing story that goes places I would never have expected to be taken. It's peopled with three dimensional characters -- intelligent women with wit and heart -- who must deal with their own weaknesses as well as injustices fate and villains have dealt them. Like her other stories, Seeds of Fire plays with magical elements in thoughtful, interesting,... more info
A little hard to get into...but it gets there.: 
I was interested in more of the magical aspects depicted
in the blurb. The story starts out quite well and finishes
satisfying. But in the middle there is this torpor situation
that lost me..
Heartwrenching & Rewarding:
A strong warning to would-be readers: begin with the first book
of the sequence: Sleight of Hand.
This wonderful book continues the story of a dozen women,
who are introduced as we go along, and prove to be pivotal
along the way. Two of the most identifiable characters are
the richly portrayed Ursula, and the mischievous and lusty
Hilea, who are respectively reincarnations of St Ursula, and
Abbess Hildegard of Bingen. [If you like Hildegard, this is
probably a trilogy you shouldn't... more info
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